In "Othmar," Ouida delves into the complexities of aristocratic life and the moral dilemmas faced by its characters. Set against a backdrop of opulent European landscapes, the novel is notable for its lush, descriptive prose and its keen psychological insights. Combining melodrama with elements of social commentary, Ouida weaves a narrative that critiques the rigid structures of society and the personal sacrifices demanded by duty and honor. The interplay of romance and tragedy in "Othmar"...

An opal necklace lost in the Venetian lagoon brings together a Countess, a rich and careless young nobleman who adores her, and Damer, an English physiologist with great ambition and no scruple. When the young man falls ill, Damer holds both the serum that could save him and the toxin that will make his death certain, and follows the logic of the laboratory. Ouida wrote it in the 1890s, when the new bacteriology was a public excitement, and it is one of the coldest of her late stories; the...

A guardsman takes the blame for a forgery to protect his brother, enlists under another name in the French cavalry in Algeria, and is loved by Cigarette, the girl who rides with the regiment. Ouida wrote it in her twenties and it was read by every subaltern in the British army. This edition binds 57 plates after John Leech, Gustave Caillebotte and Édouard Manet, with three restored and coloured illustrations in the text.

Ouida in short form: officers, gambling debts, a woman who is cleverer than the men admiring her, and the Continental spa where reputations are lost. Maria Louise Ramé took her pen name from a child's mispronunciation of Louisa, kept a suite at the Langham, wrote some forty novels, and died in poverty in Italy having given most of it to stray dogs. The flamboyance is the point, and she is funnier than her reputation. Fifty-nine plates of officers, society women and leisure in full sunlight...

Short novels and stories of the fashionable world by the young Ouida - a wager over a woman, a matchmaking mother, and a guardsman's honor. She wrote these in her early twenties for the magazines and the swagger is already complete. This edition is bound with a gallery of 56 plates, among them paintings by Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Gainsborough and Edvard Munch.

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Held in Bondage by Ouida - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Ouida’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Ouida includes original...

"Othmar" follows the story of its titular character, Othmar, a wealthy and enigmatic aristocrat living in Italy. He is a man of high social standing who is both admired and feared by those around him. Despite his outward success and social status, Othmar is a deeply troubled and conflicted individual.The plot delves into his complicated relationships with various characters, including his romantic entanglements and his interactions with the society that both supports and condemns him. The ...

According to Wikipedia: "Ouida (January 1, 1839 [1] January 25, 1908) was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée). ... During her career, she wrote more than 40 novels, children's books and collections of short stories and essays. She was an animal rights activist and animal rescuer, and at times owned as many as thirty dogs. For many years she lived in London, but about 1874 she went to Italy, where she died. ...

First published in 1875, Signa tells the tender story of an illegitimate orphan boy who is saved from death during a flood when he is one year old.His two uncles find him clinging to the breast of his dead mother, and, afraid that the villagers might accuse them of murder, they let the floodwaters take her body away and tell everyone they found the unknown baby alone in the field.Then one day he sees an old violin for sale in a shop window and asks to hold it…...

"Under Two Flags" is considered the most important best seller of the English writer Ouida (Matia Louise Ramé).The novel tells the story of an English aristocrat who, fallen into disgrace, enlisted in a French battalion of the "Foreign Legion". " Here we start a series of events that will lead the protagonist and the people dear to him (Indirectly) to ask questions about the complex meaning of their lives. Intimate, psychological, dramatic novel and , at the same time, adventurous.

This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Moths by Ouida - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Collected Works of Ouida’.Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Ouida includes original annotatio...

In a snowbound Tyrolean town where medieval towers, cloisters, and stone churches seem to hold the memory of another age, poor young August Strehla clings to the family's greatest treasure: Hirschvogel, a magnificent old porcelain stove painted with color, gold, heraldic figures, and flowers. For August and his sister Dorothea, the stove is far more than a household object; it is the warm heart of a crowded, struggling home, a source of beauty, comfort, and wonder amid debt, cold winters, ...